Sarah Abu-Sabbah
Jordanian footballer
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Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah (Arabic: سارة باسم نجم أبو صباح; born 27 October 1999) is a German-born Jordanian footballer.[2] She has also played for the Jordan under-17 team that played in the 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the senior national team of Jordan.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah | ||
| Date of birth | 27 October 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Düsseldorf, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2014–2015 | SGS Essen | ||
| 2015–2016 | Bayer Leverkusen U17 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2016 | Bayer Leverkusen | 1 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Bayer Leverkusen II | 22 | (22) |
| 2018–2021 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 65 | (46) |
| 2022–2023 | SV Meppen | 9 | (0) |
| 2023–2025 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 38 | (48) |
| 2025–2026 | Viktoria Berlin | 18 | (5) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2016 | Jordan U17 | 3 | (1) |
| 2017– | Jordan | 14 | (2) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 30 July 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 16 July 2023 (UTC) | |||
Early life
Abu-Sabbah was born on October 27, 1999[3] in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her father migrated to Germany in 1994. She started playing football at age 4 with her mother registering her at a boys' football club.[4]
Youth career
Abu-Sabbah played for the youth teams of SGS Essen and Bayer Leverkusen at the U17 Bundesliga South/SouthWest division in the 2014–15 and 2015–16 season respectively.
Club career
On March 20, 2016 she made her first appearance for the senior team of Bayer Leverkusen at the Frauen-Bundesliga,[3] becoming the first female Jordanian to play in a league outside Jordan[4] and the first Arab to play in the German women's league.[5] She only played in one match. In 2017, she is playing for Bayer Leverkusen II of third-tier league Regionalliga West.[6]
In June 2018, she joined Borussia Mönchengladbach,[7] where she achieved the top scorer in the 2020–21 2. Bundesliga with 11 goals.[8] She played for newly promoted Bundesliga club SV Meppen in 2022.[9] In July 2023, she signed for 1. FC Union Berlin in the Regionalliga Nordost,[10] contributing to their promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in her debut season at the club.[11]
International career
Abu-Sabbah first joined the Jordan U-17 team in 2015.[5] At the 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was hosted in Jordan, she debuted for the under-17 team of Jordan in the match against Spain.[12] She later scored the first goal of the Jordan U-17 team in the tournament in their 1-4 loss to Mexico.[4]
She debuted for the senior team in September 2017 in the 2–1 friendly win against Latvia in Riga.[6] She was among the players that represented Jordan at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.[2][13]
International goals
- Scores and results list Jordan's goal tally first.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 12 April 2018 | Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan |  China | 1–1 | 1–8 | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup |
| 2. | 5 April 2023 | Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan |  Timor-Leste | 3–0 | 3–1 | 2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
| 3. | 27 February 2024 | Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |  Palestine | 3–0 | 5–0 | 2022 WAFF Women's Championship |